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Sunday marked a turning point for self-driving cars. For the first time, a car in full autonomous mode struck and killed a pedestrian.
It happened at 10 p.m. in Tempe, Arizona, where ride-hailing company Uber had been picking up passengers in autonomous vehicles for more than a year.
Elaine Herzberg, 49, was walking her bicycle down a four-lane road and was starting to cross when the gray Volvo, operated by Uber, hit her at about 40 mph, according to local police.
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Governing
Most startups fail. Within the first four years, anywhere from 50 to 90 percent of firms go belly up. Investing in them is risky. It’s easy for things to go wrong.
But Blue Drop LLC isn’t a typical startup. To begin with, there isn’t a hoodie or open-loft office to be found in its modest headquarters in downtown Washington, D.C. And the company’s lone investor, the public utility DC Water, hails from an extremely risk-averse sector.
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Route Fifty
The Colorado Department of Transportation wanted a way to ascertain the dimensions of signs and other physical assets it manages along state roadways, without its employees risking life or limb working in traffic, so the agency turned to a laser measurement solution.
Esri recently made its Survey 123 for ArcGIS mobile app compatible with ikeGPS’s Spike tool, which measures the areas, elevations, distances and GPS locations of objects in photos taken with a smartphone or tablet.
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Property Casualty 360
If a new study led by the University of Bristol is to be believed, 41 million Americans are at risk from flooding rivers, according to phys.org. That’s more than three times than the current estimate of 13 million people.
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ABC News
Many tech pioneers of Silicon Valley are dipping their toes into the world of driverless car technology.
Some of the 52 different companies that have been approved by the California Department of Motor Vehicles to test autonomous vehicles on the road include Apple, Waymo, Tesla, Ford, Honda, BMW, Nissan, Intel and Uber.
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CNBC
President Donald Trump revealed his new plan to combat the opioid crisis on Monday in New Hampshire, a state hard-hit by painkiller and heroin addiction and overdose in recent years. The call to execute certain drug traffickers is drawing the most attention, but another part of the plan could make a big difference: The White House will support research into developing a vaccine for opioid addiction.
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The Associated Press via WGCL-TV
With violent weather plowing through the Southeast, the kitchen windows exploded at Richard Brasher's home in eastern Alabama.
Using couch cushions for protection, Brasher hid in the bathtub with his wife, daughter and two grandchildren as the storm passed near Jacksonville State University. The roar was terrifying, Brasher said: "I thought we were gone," he said.
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Emergency Management
In 2017 alone, an estimated 6.5 million people evacuated communities in California, Florida, Puerto Rico and Houston – some for days, some for weeks and some even longer. During times of mass evacuation, neighboring communities and border states see an influx of people with varying medical needs, from injuries sustained during evacuation to ongoing issues like diabetes.
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Domestic Preparedness
People’s lives were changed forever on Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001. At the time of the 9/11 attacks, airport security was primarily focused on threats from guns and explosives. There was little worry about knives or sharp instruments. Even when detected at checkpoints, they were not often considered dangerous. Closing this security loophole came after these attacks, which spurred drastic security changes at all phases of the transportation system.
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Nextgov
As policymakers debate the government’s role in developing artificial intelligence, a House bill aims to shed light on the emerging technology’s role in strengthening national security.
The National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence Act would create an independent panel to explore recent advancements in artificial intelligence and assess the economic and national security impacts of the budding technology.
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Emergency Management
We have all seen the statistics. In 2017 alone, disasters cost the U.S. more than $300 billion. Wildfire “season” is now all year. Hurricanes are as much or more about the water than the wind. The aging population in the U.S. — the most vulnerable in a disaster — will double by 2050.
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